Electric clothes-pressure.



l. IEANNETAUD.

ELECTRIC CLOTHES PRESSER.

APPLICATION rlLED Awe. 1915.

l ,27 1 ,577. Patented July 9, 1918.

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ELECTRIC CLOTHES-PRESSER.

Speciucation of Letters Patent.

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Application filed August 6, 1915. Serial No. 44,063.

To all whom z'z may concern:

Be it known that I, dosnrrr JEANNETAUD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dubuque, in the county of Dubuque and kState of lowa, haveinvented certain new care for clothes. And the leading object isI toprovide means whereby the wearer may crease his own clothes and thatwhile he is wearing them, and without the aid of a tailor or othereXpert.

Another object is to dry and smooth out and press clothes includinghandkerchiefs and the like. i

rlhe manner of construction and Inode of operation will be fullydescribed in the following specication and illustrated in the drawingsaccompanying the same and forming a part hereof.

Figure 1 is a side elevation.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. i

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on linev 4 4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of one of the ironing rollers.

Similar characters of reference denote similar parts' in each of thedrawings.

Having reference to the drawings 2 designates a frame, which isrectangular and consists of two sides 3 an end 7 and is preferably castintegral. ln one side of the frame are secured two brackets 4 and in theother side are attached brackets 5. ln the brackets 4 is journaledaroller 6 and in the brackets 5 is journaled another similar-roller 8.In each of the brackets 4 are set coil springs 10 that rest on andengage the journals of the roller 6 whereby the roller 6 is yieldinglymounted in the brackets and may be moved from or toward the roller 8 toadapt it to allow cloth of diderent thickness to pass between therollers.

The rollers are set in the brackets in such a manner that one side ofthe rollers are outside of the horizontal plane of the outer surface ofthe frame and the other side of the rollers are inside of the plane ofthe surface surface.

Fastened by screws to the end 7 of the lframe is a hollow handle 1'?,the opening in which registers with a corresponding opening in theframes. Un the inside o the frame at each 'side is placed aplate orbracket 15 of non-conducting material to each of which is secured one ofthe electric wires 18 and also to these same plates are attached brushes20 that rest upon andengage the collector rings 22 of the rollers 6 and8. These electric wires pass up through an opening in the top or endpiece 7 of the frame and through the handle 17 and connect with theelectric supply. There is also encircling the collector rings 22a of therollers a brush 25 that forms an electric connectionbetween the rollers.

rlf'he manner of operating my device is substantially as follows: Thewires 18 are connected to an electric supply and the current passes downonto each of the collector rings of the rollers through the plate 15 andthrough the brushes 2O and from one roller to the other through thebrush 25. This heats the rollers 6 and 8 and then when they arelsuiiciently heated, the operator passes the parts of the trousers hedesires to crease between the rollers and runs the device up and downwith the two parts of the pants between the rollers and this gives acrease as these rollers are hot with an ironing surface. If he desiresto press or iron a collar he also runs it between the rollers in thesame manner. Ihe desires to press or iron any flat surface he turns thedevice, on the side where the rollers are a little more than flush withthe plane of the surface of one side of the frame and runs it back andforward on the cloth to be pressed or dried the same as a sad iron.

lt will be seen that it may be used for a large number of purposeswithout change in construction and the springs will adapt the rollers totake between them, cloth or goods of diferent thicknesses.

Having now described my invention what l claim is:

1n apparatus of the character described, a rigid U-shaped frame havingspaced sides; a pair or' rollers arranged within the frame and connectedwith the spaced sides thereof to move toward and away from each other;

yieldin meansl te movethe rollers- '.tward Atrical heating elements andlead wires con- 10 `each ot er; electrical heating elements arnectedwith the contacts. rangedwithin the rollers; a spring element;Y Intestmon Awhereof I aix my Signature havug eleclica'fl 1clsonllllcction'vith corre; in presenceo 'two witnesses.

also ser/ging to movethe rollers tward each JOSEPH JEANNETAUD other;contacts carried by the sldes of the Witnesses:

frame and having permanent electrical con- Y M. CADY,

nection with the opposite ends of the elec-v v 5 `M. J. CQNNOLLY.y

